Found 2 items, similar to calabash.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: calabash calabash n 1: round gourd of the calabash tree 2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete] 3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria ] 4: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: gourd] 5: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash pipe]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Calabash Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza, or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.] 1. The common gourd (plant or fruit). [1913 Webster] 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. [1913 Webster] 3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. [1913 Webster] Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit, containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The African calabash tree is the baobab. [1913 Webster]